Massively surveys MMO Easter events

Seasonal events are often the most popular in-game events in many of today's MMOs. But each game's designers have to find a way to slip these real world celebrations into the lore and mechanics of their persistent worlds. Let's look at this year's crop of Easter events transmogrified into online fun.

Some designers do little more than blatantly throw in eggs hidden in the bushes such as World of Warcraft's Noblegarden. You can spend the day in the newbie zones and collect eggs that hold minor items. Not very much to this, especially considering the way Blizzard has been revamping other seasonal events like Hallow's End into something drool worthy.

You can begin your tour of these hidden gems by clicking on the first picture below, check out what little Noblegarden does have to offer in the second gallery or continue to read about Easter events in other MMOs after the jump.

Lineage 2 has been running their Bunny Money event for awhile now. Players can hunt monsters for special drops to turn in for bags of loot or they can be transported to Fantasy Isle. Once there, they can transform into rabbits which will reveal hidden treasure chests that hold various goodies. Those goodies can range for simple buff items to high level and rare pieces.

Finally, Second Life will be teaming with Easter events, from egg hunts to islands full of rabbit people. As always, the trick is to score an invite.

That's it for this year. Not many MMOs do much with this seasonal event as they do others such as Halloween or Christmas. Only time will tell if more will create content to celebrate either the egg gathering or simply the Spring Equinox.